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    On 2019 Aug 31 06:40:24, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> not familiar with that "loses an eye" one   
      
    MK> Huh?  I learned about that one from you, although I named it given it's   
    MK> resemblence to an 'i'.  There were some msgs within this echo that   
    MK> demonstrated the deletion of it by questionable tossers.   
      
   i thought you were talking about an emoticon... that i character is not an   
   emoticon ;)   
      
    ml>> a character is chosen and used to represent glyphs that cannot be   
    ml>> converted   
      
    MK> Ah!  In the case here, it is the regular question mark excepy black on a   
    MK> white background and is used only for characters that cannot be displayed.   
      
   yeah, like i said, someone doing the conversion code chooses a character to   
   represent untranslated glyphs... in a lot of cases (winwhatever i think) the   
   character is an empty rectangular box... it seems to depend on the font used by   
    the displaying tool...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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